As I told Pundit several months ago, Animalball is offering all it's games for free.  I'll forgo the press release spam bullshit I'm putting on other sites, and just give anyone interested the link to the downloads page.

What version of SR is the Becks for?

Quote from: James McMurrayWhat version of SR is the Becks for?

Shit, Mike would know, but I don't.  I know he wrote it many years ago, so I know it's not 4E.

Ah, nevermind then. Thanks!

Definitely grabbed some of the other stuff though.

I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I think it's very generous of you guys; on the other hand I'm surprised and a little disappointed you've decided you can't make money selling PDFs. But I guess that's not my business. So, thanks! Sandbox hill looks really cool, for one...

Quote from: Elliot WilenI have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I think it's very generous of you guys; on the other hand I'm surprised and a little disappointed you've decided you can't make money selling PDFs. But I guess that's not my business. So, thanks! Sandbox hill looks really cool, for one...

It's not that I don't think we can make money, it's that we're not willing to give up our day jobs, put everything we have at risk and go for it.  Mike and I both have full time jobs and write this stuff in our spare time for fun.  I think you can make SOME money at it-- but in real life I'm a lawyer and I know I could never make enough off of pdfs to quit that job.

And as an aside- we're not quitting writing either.  We have a major game in the works for release in the next couple of weeks and several smaller games in the can to be released soon as well.

Sandbox is my baby.  It's short and Mike did a beautiful job on the layout.  I love that game.

Sorry, Pundit.  I didn't see you have a sticky thread for pimping.  I posted the official press release there.  Lock this thread or whatever you want to it.

I like Instant Game's setting/plot charts.  Simple and direct.  They inspire me.

Quote from: James McMurrayWhat version of SR is the Becks for?

SR3. It is a build a character from scratch with karma. It was created to address SR3's issues with min-max during character creation and less flexibility the Build Point.  Issuses that were largely address by SR4. It also added/improved support for PC types that the offical rules didn't, including more piecemeal awakened characters (similar territory that Street Magic covers) and some of the critter types.

EDIT: It got fairly good support among players for a non-offical 3rd party items. I recall a couple Dumpshock polls, which is likely to report higher than the full player base, had about 1 in 6 people using BeCKs.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!I like Instant Game's setting/plot charts.  Simple and direct.  They inspire me.

Those charts are shit.  We're halfway through with the full version-- the charts are about ten times larger.  Reading it doesn't do it justice.  Try playing a barebones version-- it's fucking awesome.  We played a bunch of sessions on IRC and posted the transcripts on our game logs section.  Definitely worth the read.  Try reading the "Historic Brewhaha" session-- that's when we were still working out the kinks, but it shows the versatility of the genre-- my character was a Ben Franklin clone trained in drunken monkey martial arts.

Quote from: blakkieSR3. It is a build a character from scratch with karma. It was created to address SR3's issues with min-max during character creation and less flexibility the Build Point.  Issuses that were largely address by SR4. It also added/improved support for PC types that the offical rules didn't, including more piecemeal awakened characters (similar territory that Street Magic covers) and some of the critter types.

EDIT: It got fairly good support among players for a non-offical 3rd party items. I recall a couple Dumpshock polls, which is likely to report higher than the full player base, had about 1 in 6 people using BeCKs.

I'd looked at it for 3rd but never used it, and was hoping this was an update for 4th. Since it wasn't, I'll stick with the point buy in the book. It seems to work pretty well.

Hell, we still used priorities in SR3. If they were in SR4 we'd be using them still.

Quote from: Animalball BraskyTry playing a barebones version-- it's fucking awesome.  

I'm interested in doing that.

I downloaded Stories System and I like that, too.  I want to playtest it with my wife.

The first Instant Game I rolled was a campy deal set in modern-day Las Vegas, involving elves and mass transport.  I'm sick today so my brain's kinda sluggish, but I see possibilities -- kind of an over-the-top urban fantasy thing where elves, trolls, goblins and other humanoids actually run Vegas -- not from the shadows, either, but out in the open.  Each race runs a civic department and the whole city is like their "reservation" -- it's their turf, it's their livelihood.  The dwarves, for instance, run Public Works.  Heh heh heh heh, dwarves in the sewers...

And all the gaudiness, all the glitz?  Who's responsible for that?  Not the elves.  

Goblins.

Goblins do everything BIG and FLASHY, and they're born showmen and wheeler-dealers.  (At least, in this game they are.)  They're the reason that Vegas is the "anything goes" town that it is.  There's a goblin mob, and they call the shots.

The elves musta pissed 'em off...

THIS is what like about tables and charts -- they're a random-access idea mill.  I like having a trampoline to jump on, so to speak.

It's a beautiful thing.

Quote from: Dr Rotwang!"reservation"

I think maybe the word you're looking for is "monopoly" or even better "franchise".

Quote from: Elliot WilenIt's a beautiful thing.


I think maybe the word you're looking for is "monopoly" or even better "franchise".

I wondered about that but I think I could go either way -- either that's the chunk of land they get all to themselves...or they were put there.